MTL vs. TFII, ATS, ATA, SES, SVI, MSI, RUS, EIF, BBU.UN, and CJT
Should you be buying Mullen Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mullen Group include TFI International (TFII), ATS (ATS), ATS Automation Tooling Systems (ATA), Secure Energy Services (SES), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Morneau Shepell (MSI), Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), and Cargojet (CJT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
TFI International (TSE:TFII) and Mullen Group (TSE:MTL) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
72.8% of TFI International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.9% of Mullen Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of TFI International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Mullen Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TFI International presently has a consensus price target of C$182.78, indicating a potential downside of 5.66%. Mullen Group has a consensus price target of C$17.89, indicating a potential upside of 36.66%. Given TFI International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mullen Group is more favorable than TFI International.
TFI International pays an annual dividend of C$2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Mullen Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. TFI International pays out 28.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mullen Group pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Mullen Group has a net margin of 6.49% compared to Mullen Group's net margin of 6.44%. Mullen Group's return on equity of 18.98% beat TFI International's return on equity.
TFI International has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mullen Group has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TFI International had 1 more articles in the media than Mullen Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for TFI International and 0 mentions for Mullen Group. TFI International's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Mullen Group's score of 0.59 indicating that Mullen Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TFI International has higher revenue and earnings than Mullen Group. Mullen Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFI International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mullen Group received 104 more outperform votes than TFI International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.95% of users gave TFI International an outperform vote while only 52.94% of users gave Mullen Group an outperform vote.
Summary
TFI International beats Mullen Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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